Comment # 9 on bug 996834 from Donald Curtis

(In reply to Wolfgang Bauer from comment #8)
> 
> I don't understand you. What do you mean exactly with that?
> 
> But I hope it is clear for you that we (openSUSE's KDE team) have to follow
> the KDE release schedules. And we are only going to ship stable releases
> anyway, the plan is the latest 16.08.x.

With reference to a comment made by Richard Harris at osc16: yes, Leap 42.1
was, sadly, initially a KDE disaster.

So, what can testers do to help avoid the same situation with Leap 42.2?

>From where I'm sitting: Test, Test, Test . . . -- and preferably with the Beta
releases . . .

If the delivery schedule of the KDE components is not early enough for Beta
testing to find the things which will annoy the user community then, there is a
danger that, the Leap 42.2 release will not be well received.

The worst thing that can happen is, that the Kontact user community will remain
with the KDE4 Plasma version (despite the occasional segment faults when the
mail archive runs).